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THEBAN "TheWitches'Alphabet" ManyPagans,Witches,andWiccansusetheThebanalphabettoencodetheirwritingsintheirBooksofShadowsorspellbooks.TheThebanScriptisalsoknownas the"Witches'Alphabet". TheearliestknownsourcefortheThebanalphabetisCorneliusAgrippa's"ThreeBooksofOccultPhilosophy"firstpublishedatAntwerpin1531.Agrippaprovidedthe ThebanScriptinBookIII,Chapter29andwrote,"OfthiskindofcharacterthereforearethosewhichPeterApponusnotes,asdeliveredbyHonoriusofThebes".Thisis almostcertainlyareferencetotheauthoroftheearly14thcentury"LiberJuratus,ortheSworneBookeofHonorius". However,itisbelievedthattheThebanalphabetactuallyoriginatedasaLatincipherbeforethe11thcentury.Theoriginoftheletterformsisobscure,butalltheevidence isconsistentwithanoriginasanearlyalchemicalcipheralphabetinfluencedbyAvestan. TheThebanalphabet,istoday,andalwayshasbeenemployedprimarilyfortalismanicinscriptionsandmagickalspellsandworks.